Personal care system

ABSTRACT

A personal care system is provided. The system includes a soap bag, an inner pouch and an outer pouch for managing personal care essentials. A plurality of bars of soap can be removably retained within the soap bag. The soap bag is nestable within the inner pouch, and the inner pouch is nestable within the outer pouch. Each pouch may provide a cape cover for facilitating cleaning and/or nesting of the pouches.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to personal care and, more particularly,to a system for managing personal care essentials.

Bar soap is a popular personal care item that presents somewell-documented problems. A bar of soap is slippery and comes in manydifferent shapes and sizes frustrating one-size-fits-all retainers.Slippery soap can result in the soap dropping and breaking during use ordropping into bath water, making finding the bar of soap difficult,particularly for users with physical disabilities. This broken or lostsoap may be discarded and wasted. Another problem is soap that sits in asoap dish can get soft and mushy resulting in waste and a messy soapdish that is time consuming to clean. Frequently small soap pieces arediscarded resulting in waste.

Using soap leads to the need for another popular personal care item, atowel. Many times, towels are not handy or otherwise in reach even ifthe soap readily presented itself when starting to shower, bath or washup. Searching for the drying towel, when soaking wet, is an annoyance.

As can be seen, there is a need for managing personal care essentials.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In one aspect of the present invention, a personal care system formanaging personal care essentials, comprises: a soap bag of mesh forminga pouch for retaining a plurality of bars of soap therein, wherein thepouch provides a closable bag opening for receiving the plurality ofbars of soap; and an inner pouch defining a first open end for receivingthe soap bag, wherein the first open end provides a first closing deviceattached thereto, and wherein the inner pouch provides a half cape coveralong a portion of the first open end.

In another aspect of the present invention, a personal care system formanaging personal care essentials, comprises: a soap bag of mesh forminga pouch for retaining a plurality of bars of soap therein, wherein thepouch provides a closable bag opening for receiving the plurality ofbars of soap; an inner pouch defining a first open end for receiving thesoap bag, wherein the inner pouch provides a drawstring channel around aperimeter of the first open end, wherein the first open end provides adrawstring threaded through the drawstring channel and an adjustablecord stop, and wherein the inner pouch provides a half cape cover alonga portion of the first open end; and an outer pouch defining a secondopen end for receiving the inner pouch, wherein the outer pouch providesa drawstring channel around a perimeter of the second open end, whereinthe second open end provides a drawstring threaded through thedrawstring channel and an adjustable cord stop, and wherein the outerpouch provides a full cape cover along a substantial portion of thesecond open end.

In yet another aspect of the present invention, a method of managingsoap, towels and other personal care items in one system, comprises thesteps of: providing personal care system comprising: a soap bag of meshforming a pouch for retaining a plurality of bars of soap therein,wherein the pouch provides a closable bag opening for receiving theplurality of bars of soap; an inner pouch defining a first open end forreceiving the soap bag, wherein the first open end provides a firstclosing device attached thereto, and wherein the inner pouch provides ahalf cape cover along a portion of the first open end; and an outerpouch defining a second open end for receiving the inner pouch, whereinthe second open end provides a second closing device attached thereto,and wherein the outer pouch provides a full cape cover along asubstantial portion of the second open end; and placing the plurality ofsoap through the closable bag opening of the soap bag; nesting the soapbag into the first opening of the inner pouch; drawing the first closingdevice closed; folding the half cape cover about the inner pouch forcovering the first opening; nesting the inner pouch into the secondopening of the outer pouch; and drawing the second closing deviceclosed.

These and other features, aspects and advantages of the presentinvention will become better understood with reference to the followingdrawings, description and claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention; and

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The following detailed description is of the best currently contemplatedmodes of carrying out exemplary embodiments of the invention. Thedescription is not to be taken in a limiting sense, but is made merelyfor the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the invention,since the scope of the invention is best defined by the appended claims.

Broadly, an embodiment of the present invention provides a personal caresystem including a soap bag, an inner pouch and an outer pouch formanaging personal care essentials. A plurality of bars of soap can beremovably retained within the soap bag. The soap bag is nestable withinthe inner pouch, and the inner pouch is nestable within the outer pouch.Each pouch may provide a cape cover for facilitating cleaning and/ornesting of the pouches.

Referring to FIGS. 1 through 3, the present invention may include apersonal care system 10. The personal care system 10 may include a soapbag 20, an outer pouch 12 and an inner pouch 16.

The soap bag 20 may be manufactured from a mesh or netted material, likea flexible synthetic or organic, that is permeable to, yet notdisintegratable in water. The soap bag 20 may be comprised of at leastone panel sewn or heat sealed together so as to form a pouch adapted toretain a plurality of bars of soap 22 therein. The soap bag 20 mayprovide a closable bag opening 28 for receiving the plurality of bars ofsoap 22, wherein the bag opening may be closed to facilitate theretaining of the a plurality of bars of soap 22 therein. The closablebag opening 28 may provide a cinching band to facilitate the closingthereof.

The inner pouch 16 may be manufactured from a cloth material thatabsorbs moisture. The inner pouch 16 may be comprised of at least onepanel sewn or heat sealed together so as to form a pouch adapted toreceive and retain at least the soap bag 20. The inner pouch 16 definesan open end to receive the at least the soap bag 20.

The inner pouch 16 may provide a closing device attached to the open endcomprised of a drawstring 18 and cord stop 19 as seen in FIGS. 1 through3. In another embodiment, a closing device is comprised of a drawstring18 and a slipknot. In still another embodiment, a closing device may beany fastener known in the art for fastening or removably securing oneobject to another including, for example, standard push-button snaps,Velcro-type fasteners, adhesive substances, combinations thereof, andthe like.

A perimeter of the open end of the inner pouch 16 may include a channelas shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The drawstring 18 may be threaded through thechannel and the adjustable cord stop 19 may be secured to the drawstring18. The drawstring 18 may be manufactured from nylon string, a syntheticor organic string or cord of various diameters.

The cord stop 19 may be manufactured from plastic containing a metal orplastic biasing spring (not shown) and a plunger. The cord stop may alsobe manufactured from a material that floats in water.

The inner pouch 16 may provide a half cape cover 26 disposed along aportion of the open end, wherein the half cape cover 26 may be made ofabsorbent material and adapted for cleaning, washing and dryingpurposes.

The outer pouch 12 may be manufactured from a cloth material thatabsorbs moisture. The outer pouch 12 may be comprised of at least onepanel sewn or heat sealed together so as to form a pouch adapted toreceive and retain at least the soap bag 20 and the inner pouch 16. Thepouch defines an open end to receive the at least the soap bag 20 andthe inner pouch 16.

The outer pouch 12 may provide a closing device attached to the open endcomprised of a drawstring 14 and cord stop 15 as seen in FIGS. 1 through3. In another embodiment, a closing device is comprised of a drawstring14 and a slipknot. In still another embodiment, a closing device may beany fastener known in the art for fastening or removably securing oneobject to another including, for example, standard push-button snaps,Velcro-type fasteners, adhesive substances, combinations thereof, andthe like.

A perimeter of the open end of the outer pouch 12 may include a channelas shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The drawstring 14 may be threaded through thechannel and the adjustable cord stop 15 may be secured to the drawstring14. The drawstring 14 may be manufactured from nylon string, a syntheticor organic string or cord of various diameters.

The cord stop 15 may be manufactured from plastic containing a metal orplastic biasing spring (not shown) and a plunger. The cord stop may alsobe manufactured from a material that floats in water.

The outer pouch 12 may provide a full cape cover 24 disposed along aportion of the open end, wherein the full cape cover may be made ofabsorbent material and adapted for cleaning, washing and dryingpurposes.

A method of using the present invention may include the following. Thepersonal care system 10 disclosed above may be provided. For storingpopular personal care items, a user may nest the plurality of bars ofsoap 22 in the soap bag 20. Then the user may nest the soap bag 20within the pouch of the inner pouch 16. Then the user may nest the innerpouch 16 within the outer pouch 12. The user may use either one or bothof the cape covers 24, 26 to facilitate the secure nesting of the soapbag 20 and the pouches 16, 12 by, for example, wrapping one and/or bothof the cape covers 24, 26 about their respective open ends.

The user may use the soap bag 20 containing the plurality of bars ofsoap 22 to exfoliate and scrub themselves. Thereafter, the user may useeither one of the cape covers 24, 26 for cleaning purposes.

It should be understood, of course, that the foregoing relates toexemplary embodiments of the invention and that modifications may bemade without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as setforth in the following claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A personal care system for managing personal careessentials, comprising: a soap bag of mesh forming a pouch for retaininga plurality of bars of soap therein, wherein the pouch provides aclosable bag opening for receiving the plurality of bars of soap; and aninner pouch defining a first open end for receiving the soap bag,wherein the first open end provides a first closing device attachedthereto, and wherein the inner pouch provides a half cape cover along aportion of the first open end.
 2. The personal care system for managingpersonal care essentials of claim 1, further providing an outer pouchdefining a second open end for receiving the inner pouch, wherein thesecond open end provides a second closing device attached thereto, andwherein the outer pouch provides a full cape cover along a substantialportion of the second open end.
 3. The personal care system for managingpersonal care essentials of claim 2, wherein the inner pouch and theouter pouch each provide a drawstring channel around a perimeter of thefirst open end and the second open end, respectively.
 4. The personalcare system for managing personal care essentials of claim 3, whereinthe first closing device and the second closing device each comprise adrawstring threaded through the respective drawstring channel and anadjustable cord stop.
 5. The personal care system for managing personalcare essentials of claim 1, wherein the closable bag opening provides acinching band.
 6. A personal care system for managing personal careessentials, comprising: a soap bag of mesh forming a pouch for retaininga plurality of bars of soap therein, wherein the pouch provides aclosable bag opening for receiving the plurality of bars of soap; aninner pouch defining a first open end for receiving the soap bag,wherein the inner pouch provides a drawstring channel around a perimeterof the first open end, wherein the first open end provides a drawstringthreaded through the drawstring channel and an adjustable cord stop, andwherein the inner pouch provides a half cape cover along a portion ofthe first open end; and an outer pouch defining a second open end forreceiving the inner pouch, wherein the outer pouch provides a drawstringchannel around a perimeter of the second open end, wherein the secondopen end provides a drawstring threaded through the drawstring channeland an adjustable cord stop, and wherein the outer pouch provides a fullcape cover along a substantial portion of the second open end.
 7. Thepersonal care system for managing personal care essentials of claim 6,wherein the closable bag opening provides a cinching band.
 8. A methodof managing soap, towels and other personal care items in one system,comprising the steps of: providing personal care system comprising: asoap bag of mesh forming a pouch for retaining a plurality of bars ofsoap therein, wherein the pouch provides a closable bag opening forreceiving the plurality of bars of soap; an inner pouch defining a firstopen end for receiving the soap bag, wherein the first open end providesa first closing device attached thereto, and wherein the inner pouchprovides a half cape cover along a portion of the first open end; and anouter pouch defining a second open end for receiving the inner pouch,wherein the second open end provides a second closing device attachedthereto, and wherein the outer pouch provides a full cape cover along asubstantial portion of the second open end; and placing the plurality ofsoap through the closable bag opening of the soap bag; nesting the soapbag into the first opening of the inner pouch; drawing the first closingdevice closed; folding the half cape cover about the inner pouch forcovering the first opening; nesting the inner pouch into the secondopening of the outer pouch; and drawing the second closing deviceclosed.
 9. The method of claim 9, further providing folding the fullcape cover about the outer pouch for covering the second opening andstoring the personal care system.